Culture and Society

Culture and Society is a book published in 1958 by Welsh progressive writer Raymond Williams, exploring how the notion of culture developed in Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Culture and Society

First American edition (1960) publ. Columbia University Press
Author	Raymond Williams
Language	English
Genre	Cultural studies
Publisher	Chatto and Windus
Publication date	1958
Media type	Print (book)
ISBN	0-7012-0792-2
OCLC	16466015

Williams argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake.^[1] This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher Caudwell.

The book is still in print, in several editions. It has also been translated into many languages.

Further reading

By Williams

• Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Croom Helm, 1976). Originally intended as an appendix to Culture and Society.

About Williams

• Milligan, Don (2007). Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism. Studies in Anti-Capitalism. E-book.
• Mulhern, Francis (January–February 2009). "Culture and Society, Then and Now". New Left Review. II (55). New Left Review.

See also

• Information culture